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Optibet Premier League season ends today

The Optibet Premier League season will end with four games on Sunday, but the championship team Riga has already announced a day in advance that they do not plan to go on the field.

All four Premier League games of the last season are scheduled for 12.30.

Riga and Ventspils clubs also planned to go on the field during this time, but the residents of Riga announced on Saturday that Covid-19 would not play the game due to the situation. “Riga” after the Covid-19 outbreak is unable to collect the line-up, because most footballers have not yet recovered from the disease.

None of the games in the tournament table can be drastically adjusted anymore, but the lower-end Metta has a two-point advantage over the last-ranked Tukums 2000 ″ / TSS, which is still looking to avoid relegation to the first league.

It has already been reported that the board of the Latvian Football Federation (LFF) decided at its meeting on Friday to cancel the playoffs for the Optibet football super-league. This way, the ninth-place team will not have to avoid rematches.

Daugavpils will host Jūrmala’s Spartaku at the Celtnieks Stadium, broadcasting the game live to Sportacentrs.com.

Daugavpils celebrated their last victory on October 17, when “Metta” won 1: 0. Later, the team gave up 0: 2 and 1: 2 to “Riga” and RFS, but later managed to score against Ventspils, playing a draw 0: 0. In the last match against “Valmiera”, the Latgale team could not spend all 90 minutes, because only six of the eight players on the field were available. The team was later awarded a technical loss with 0: 3.

Spartak has won three games in the last five games. After losing in the quarterfinals of the Latvian Cup against “Liepāja” (1: 3), “Valmiera” was defeated with 1: 0, but later an unexpected failure against Tukums unit (2: 4). In the last two duels, the goal of “Spartaka” has not been taken, because “Liepāja” was defeated with 1: 0, but “Jelgava” was destroyed with 7: 0.

Both teams played two games this season. In the first “Spartaks” won with 2: 0, but the answer match ended in a draw 3: 3.

The tournament will be closed in the honor of the best “bombarder” by the attacker Nemanjs Belakovičs, who has reached the former Valmiera resident Toluvalas Arokodari with 15 goals, who is already in the German Bundesliga team “Koln”.

Meanwhile, “Jelgava” will meet with the Latvian Cup winner “Liepāja” at the Jānis Lūša Stadium of the Zemgale Olympic Center. This game will be broadcast on the blue screens by the channel “Best4sport TV”.

“Jelgava” has been unsuccessful in the last games of the Super League, because they have managed to score only two goals in four dues. Both were undecided against “Valmiera”, but previously RFS lost with 0: 1, but “Ventspils” with 0: 5. Also in the last game there was a “dry” loss – 0: 7 against “Spartak”.

The Kurzeme club experienced its last failure in the Premier League at the beginning of November against “Spartak” (0: 1), but in the next game they managed to win “Ventspils” with 1: 0, thus winning the Latvian Cup. After that, the people of Liepaja won the RFS with 1: 0, played a draw 1: 1 against “Valmiera”, as well as defeated the people of Tukums – 5: 0.

“Liepāja” has won both matches in mutual matches. In the first meeting, the people of Kurzeme won with 5: 1, but in the second – with 3: 1.

In the “Liepāja” team this season the best goal scorer is Dodo, who has 14 “goals”, while in the fifth place among the best players is Artūrs Karašausks, who has six goals.

The “Sportacentrs.com” channel will also feature “Metta” fight with “Valmiera”, the game will take place on the football field of Riga Hansa Secondary School.

Including the Latvian Cup, Metta has lost eight games in a row and the loss on Sunday could mean relegation to the first league. In the last five Premier League games, the “Mettians” have lost to “Daugavpils” (0: 1), Tukums 2000 ″ / TSS (1: 3), “Riga” (1: 5), RFS (0: 3) and “Ventspils” (0 : 1).

Meanwhile, “Valmiera” has not suffered a loss since the Latvian Cup, when “Liepāja” lost 0: 2 in the semi-finals. After that, the people of Valmiera played 2: 2 with “Jelgava” and 1: 1 with “Liepāja”, but the game against “Daugavpils” ended prematurely.

In the first meeting of this season, both teams fought a draw 2: 2, but in the answer match “Valmiera” won at home with 1: 0.

The leader of the “Metta” team with ten goals is Raimonds Krollis, who made his debut in the national team this autumn, at the expense of ten “goals”. He is the most productive Latvian footballer in the Premier League championship and is in the eighth position among the goal scorers.

Finally, “Tukums 2000” / TSS will be hosted by vice-champions RFS at the city artificial pavement stadium.

At the end of the RFS Super League, the last loss was suffered against “Liepāja” (0: 1), but before that the teams “Daugavpils” and “Metta” were beaten by 2: 1 and 3: 0, respectively. RFS also managed to beat the fiercest competitor “Riga” in the last game with 3: 0.

The Tukums team cannot complain about the achieved results at the end of the season either, because the victory over “Metta” (3: 1) and “Spartaku” (4: 2) allowed to feel the taste of the won game series. This was followed by “dry” losses against “Riga” (0: 2) and “Liepāja” (0: 5).

In both previous meetings, RFS won with 3: 0.

Artūrs Zjuzins and Tomašs Šimkovičs will not be able to help in this duel due to RFS disqualification.

In case Tukums wins, but “Metta” suffers a loss, Tukums 2000 ″ / TSS will retain its place in the Premier League championship, as it will be one point ahead of its closest follower.

To increase the chances of victory, the defenders of “Tukums 2000 ″ / TSS must hope that the Rigans will not let the attacking leader Kuli Ričardu Mbombo, who scored 12 goals this season.

The first place in the tournament table with 69 points in 26 matches is taken by “Riga”, which is six points ahead of RFS. “Valmiera” has 44 points, but “Ventspils” has 41 points and a worse balance in mutual games.

It has already been reported that at the meeting of the Latvian Football Super League on November 13, a decision was made by a majority to support the proposal not to continue the Optibet Latvian Football Super League season due to the difficult situation of Covid-19. This decision was also supported by the members of the footballers’ union, but on November 16, the LFF did not accept the proposal.

“Liepāja” is behind the first four with 39 points, Jūrmala “Spartaks” has gained 37 points, “Jelgava”, 22 “Daugavpils”, 16 “Metta” team, and 14 – for Tukums 2000 ″ / TSS footballers.

This season, ten teams will start in the Super League, which is one more than last year and two more than yesterday. Also, this season the limit of legionaries in the Super League has been raised to eight players. This means that there must be at least three players prepared for the association on the court at the same time. Last year, the limit was five foreign players.

As in many other countries, the number of permitted substitutions has been increased from three to five after the coronavirus break in the regulations of the Premier League championship in the 2020 season.

Due to a three-month forced break, three are taking place instead of the four planned laps this season.

Last year, “Riga” was crowned Latvian champion, but RFS won its first trophy in the history of the club, which won the national cup.

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